Found in Antiquity

I’ve been an amateur producer of web content almost all of my life. But as I reflect on the publication and positive reception of The Lover’s Curse: A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4 I’ve come to a greater appreciation and respect for the professional, mainstream, slow-moving avenues of book publication. There is an argument that Read more

It’s so close! The launch party for The Lover’s Curse: A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4 is happening this weekend at the following times (click here to join, or click the thumbnail below): This is my final post in the series celebrating the publication of Latin tiered readers throughout the ages. While Part 1 shared Read more

Welcome back to my series of posts celebrating tiered readers as I count down to the launch party for The Lover’s Curse: A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4. In Part 1, I spoke about old tiered readers which are now in the public domain. In Part 2, I spoke about tiered texts in 20th century Read more

In celebration of the upcoming launch of The Lover’s Curse: A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4, I’m working my way through the history of published tiered texts. In the previous post (Part 1), I spoke about tiered texts that were old enough to be in the public domain. The next chapter of the history is Read more

Welcome to this series of posts about tiered readers written in celebration of the impending launch of my book, The Lover’s Curse: A Tiered Reader of Aeneid 4. I hope you can join me on Saturday 23 for the Livestream launch party at this link (or click the thumbnail below). For this post series leading Read more

I developed this flowchart as a way to visualise how a student could use explicit knowledge of Latin case endings to arrive at a set of possibilities for what those forms could signify. I said ‘explicit knowledge’. I’ve been thinking more about the role of explicit knowledge in second language teaching. We shouldn’t reject a Read more